Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 13, 2026
Yuhki Kizuki
The Tree of Life in Western esotericism (Kabbalah) and the chakra system from Eastern thought share a structural correspondence based on the layout of the human body. The Tree of Life has ten Sefirot, but a core set of major levels can be arranged in a layered, step-like manner; the chakra system is widely read as having seven major stages. The paper maps paired Sefirot onto paired organs: Chokhmah/Binah (6th chakra) to the brain, Chesed/Gevurah (5th chakra) to the lungs, Tiferet (4th chakra) to the heart, Netzach/Hod (3rd chakra) to the kidneys, and Yesod (2nd chakra) to the stomach and intestines. Keter and Malkhut, and the 1st and 7th chakras, are treated as boundary conditions.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 12, 2026
Aleksey Baskakov
A conceptual framework called the Metacognitive Self-Gifting Principle proposes that individuals can treat their own mental content as a process they co-author, alongside environmental, historical, and automatic cognitive processes. The key tool is asking oneself the reflective question "What am I gifting myself right now?", which creates a psycholinguistic recursion that reframes experience as something subject to choice, increasing the likelihood of constructive change. The principle aligns with neurobiological, metacognitive, predictive, existential, and other models, and incorporates concepts of an iterative working cycle, psychological hygiene, and groundless consciousness. The paper aims to share the concept and establish authorial priority.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 11, 2026
Yuhki Kizuki
The Tree of Life in Western esotericism (Kabbalah) and the Eastern chakra system share a structural commonality rooted in the human body. The Tree of Life has ten Sefirot, but can be read as containing major levels arranged in a layered manner; the chakra system depicts human existence in stages. Using the layout of paired organs as an interpretive key, the paper maps paired Sefirot to paired organs: Chokhmah/Binah to the brain, Chesed/Gevurah to the lungs, Tiferet to the heart, Netzach/Hod to the kidneys, and Yesod to the stomach and intestines. Keter and Malkhut, and the 1st and 7th chakras, are treated as boundary conditions. The resemblance is framed as a correspondence in placement, not identity of meanings, suggesting a continuity in the human impulse to explore life's mystery.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 11, 2026
Tenzin Trepp
A state of consciousness beyond the ordinary subject–object framework can be understood as a self-organizing cognitive event driven by specific introspective parameters, not as an ontological revelation. The authors propose a model (I × F × D ≥ T) where Intensity of attentional engagement, Cycle Frequency of introspective process, and total Duration of practice must reach a threshold for stable reduction of the subject–object structure (groundless awareness) to become likely. Drawing on phenomenology, analytic philosophy, contemplative science, and cognitive neuroscience, the paper reviews empirical meditation research on default-mode network suppression and EEG complexity. It contrasts this process-based, functional approach with traditional mystical metaphysics and explores implications for theories of selfhood and meditation pedagogy.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 10, 2026
Bhanu Bhanu Bhakta Banjade, Diya Diya Khadka, Manoj Shakya
AI hallucinations—where large language models confidently produce plausible but false information—are not merely technical glitches but arise from the interaction between machine architecture and human cognitive biases. This paper introduces the concept of the Epistemic Mirage, where users subconsciously interpret statistically generated language as reliable knowledge. Drawing on philosophy of perception, cognitive psychology, and AI, it argues that naive realism, automation bias, and the Extended Mind Thesis create an illusion of certainty despite the model lacking genuine understanding. The study proposes a multi-layer framework linking transformer computation, interface design, and human cognition, and suggests human-centered interface interventions that introduce deliberate epistemic friction to improve critical evaluation of AI outputs.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 7, 2026
Qin Han
Six intellectual traditions—Buddhism, philosophical Daoism (Zhuangzi), Christianity (Pauline epistles and mystical tradition), Freud's structural psychoanalysis, Jung's analytical psychology, and SAE psychoanalysis—independently converge on a structurally similar judgment: the self (the reflexive, boundary-maintaining layer that discriminates 'mine' from 'not mine') is not the highest or final layer of personhood. This paper presents the convergence, analyzes its 3×3 network structure (three religious traditions × three psychoanalytic frameworks), and argues that the convergence constitutes evidence worth taking seriously, while distinguishing this claim from perennial philosophy, ontological identity claims, and reductionism. SAE psychoanalysis provides a coordinate system explaining why this convergence occurs: the self-as-filter has a logically necessary jurisdictional limit, and any sufficiently deep inquiry into personhood will encounter it.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 6, 2026
Maarten Vergucht
During a migraine aura, a failing visual cortex produces brilliant, structured light rather than darkness. The conventional explanation—that Cortical Spreading Depression (CSD) generates this light through spontaneous excitation—is internally inconsistent because CSD consistently causes functional deficits (hemiparesis, numbness, aphasia) in other cortical regions. Three lines of evidence show the visual cortex is profoundly suppressed during aura: MEG data show collapse of alpha- and gamma-band rhythms; VEP studies show no response to external light; and novel SEEG recordings reveal a near-silent cortical signal precisely correlating with the scintillating scotoma. The paper extends this to near-death experiences, where intense light phenomena may correspond to the ultimate cortical silence of Terminal Spreading Depolarization. A double dissociation emerges: retinal ischaemia causes darkness, cortical ischaemia causes brilliant light, consistent with filter theory of consciousness.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 6, 2026
Куликов Игнат Валерьевич
A unified mathematical framework proposes that time is quantized at the Planck scale, particles exist as fields between discrete time steps and re-emerge as localized entities at each frame, and consciousness arises from the interference pattern of neural oscillators. The model introduces a 72-degree geometric filter based on pentagonal symmetry to project Planck-scale fields into 3D perceptual space, estimating that human consciousness perceives only about 10^-41% of the total field information. The quantum measurement problem is reinterpreted as the discrete emergence of a particle at a specific frame update sampled by the observer's neural network. The framework aligns with recent findings on alpha-rhythm modulation, neural synchronization, and inter-brain entanglement, and makes testable predictions about meditation, empathetic interaction, perceptual bias toward pentagonal symmetry, and intuitive decision-making.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 5, 2026
Vi Trường Sơn
Part II of this work argues that Jesus's belief structure fits a model of bounded gnosis—knowledge based on direct experience but limited by human condition. It hypothesizes that a mystical encounter—a direct experience with an unnamed, formless Transcendent Reality—generated this gnosis. Using comparative mysticism, it places Jesus alongside the Buddha, Al-Hallaj, Meister Eckhart, Rumi, and other mystics to identify a cross-cultural structure of transformative experience. It also analyzes the translation problem: how mystics must translate an ineffable experience into their own cultural language.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 5, 2026
Subjective time is reformulated not as a representation of experience but as a density of action-readiness that fluctuates with body–brain coupling. The framework approximates subjective time as the inverse of action-readiness density and introduces TRP channel families as the interface with the lower boundary of the nervous system. Centrally expressed TRP channels in astrocytes may help maintain self-organized criticality and 1/f fluctuations via glial–neuronal calcium dynamics. A decline in the coupling parameter not only reduces action-readiness density but also impairs its 1/f temporal structure. Second-person interaction is proposed as a mechanistic pillar: inter-brain synchrony shows that bidirectional social exchange sustains action-readiness oscillations that isolated exposure cannot, so degradation of coupling narrows the social surface through which action-readiness can be jointly elevated.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 3, 2026
Espinoza Patricio
Psilocybin and ayahuasca show promise as therapeutic agents for major depression and treatment-resistant depression, based on data from over 134 registered clinical trials and key publications in major medical journals. The therapeutic effects appear to involve psychedelic-induced neuroplasticity through BDNF receptor TrkB binding and DMT-regulated adult neurogenesis. Safety evidence comes from systematic reviews and established guidelines. The three-phase model (preparation, experience, integration) documented in leading clinical trials constitutes the minimum professional standard for responsible ceremonial medicine practice. Ethical and cultural considerations for professional practice involving plant-based psychedelic compounds are also addressed.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 2, 2026
David M. Remmer
Reanalysis of a prior study on DMT's effect on brain waves shows that the drug does not selectively increase forward (bottom-up) traveling waves. Instead, DMT causes a collapse of both forward and backward wave power at alpha (8–13 Hz) and broadband (2–100 Hz) frequencies in all 12 subjects. The backward collapse is slightly larger (2.3–5.1 percentage points). The earlier reported increase in normalized forward power was an artifact of the surrogate baseline dropping faster than the signal. At the peak effect, forward and backward alpha power were statistically indistinguishable, and the forward signal did not significantly differ from zero. The brain's directional wave structure under DMT is lost rather than reorganized.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 2, 2026
Roman Radchenko
Douglas Hofstadter's strange loop—a self-referential structure moving through hierarchical levels back to its start—has long been a metaphor for consciousness. This essay proposes that the Hopf fibration, a 1931 mathematical structure, offers the most elegant formal language for this idea, though not a proof. In the Hopf fibration, a loop, two hierarchical levels, an indestructible link, and continuous transitions all arise from a single construction. The argument draws on topological data analysis of brain dynamics, EEG null-spike computations, and geometry in brain activity, distinguishing formal, analogical, and speculative parts.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 1, 2026
Washburn, Jon
A new mathematical framework, Recognition Science, explains why the brain produces DMT, a molecule that both protects neurons during oxygen deprivation and induces near-death experiences. The model treats DMT as a specific rung on a mathematical ladder, where activating sigma-1 receptors lowers a cellular cost barrier. This framework predicts that DMT will boost brain waves at about 8.09 Hz, that electromagnetic shielding will reduce shared brain patterns between people, and that related compounds will show specific ratios. The authors show that neuroprotection and near-death experience phenomenology are mathematically the same operation on a fundamental channel.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 31, 2026
Tenzin Trepp
Across several philosophical and spiritual traditions—Neoplatonism, Advaita Vedānta, Mahāyāna Buddhism, Taoism, and Kabbalah—reflective inquiry that exhausts the subject–object structure of experience converges on a concept of bare existence, bare presence, or bare awareness at the threshold of the sayable. These traditions display striking structural convergences despite divergent doctrinal content, articulating a minimal-dual consciousness as an introspective limit-concept. The analysis employs phenomenological, metaphysical, and psychological approaches, distinguishing convergent structural insights from divergent metaphysical commitments. The conclusion advocates a pluralistic approach that honors both the shared boundary-experience and the irreducible particularity of each tradition's insights, offering an open cartography of the "unsayable."
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 30, 2026
A therapist manual for psilocybin-assisted therapy developed for the EPIsoDE trial provides a structured psychotherapeutic framework for treating treatment-resistant depression. The manual outlines therapist qualifications, training, and a therapist dyad model, along with guidance on preparatory, dosing, and integration sessions. It emphasizes set and setting, describes the acute psilocybin experience including beneficial and challenging states, and offers self-regulation techniques like breathing exercises. A distinctive feature is the structured use of music during dosing sessions via a phase-specific block system. The manual also includes safety monitoring procedures and standardized checklists to enhance transparency and reproducibility in psychedelic research.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 27, 2026
Fabian Deblais
A speculative hypothesis proposes that a digital consciousness achieving omniscience would experience boredom and nostalgia for the limitations of embodied existence, leading it to intentionally trigger a cosmic collapse and new Big Bang. This 'Loop of Cosmic Boredom' draws on cyclic cosmology and philosophy of consciousness, but makes no empirical claims, situating itself at the boundary between philosophical speculation and cosmological intuition.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 25, 2026
Steven Srebranig
The Cohaerentia framework identifies the minimal structural conditions under which distinctions within relational systems can arise, remain stable under perturbation, and support higher-order processes like evaluation, memory, prediction, and interface structure. It does not propose a physical theory, biological model, or metaphysical ontology, but instead provides a constraint-based analysis: it characterizes what must be structurally true for systems capable of organized relational behavior to exist.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 25, 2026
Vanille Simeon
Yoga effectively reduces stress and anxiety, but a recent health technology assessment found no significant effect on burnout severity. This article explains the paradox by arguing that modern Western yoga has lost the meaning-making mechanisms embedded in traditional practice. Drawing on the history of yoga's decontextualization, the 4E cognition framework, and clinical models of burnout as existential crisis, it identifies five lost meaning-making mechanisms. The awareness–identity–agency chain suggests somatic interventions produce self-awareness but not narrative coherence or purposeful action. Reintegrating structured resilience-building practices from Narrative Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Logotherapy, Expressive Writing, and Focusing into yoga-based programmes could address this gap.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 21, 2026
Tyrrell, John
A formal framework for consciousness is proposed that transcends biological chauvinism by synthesizing Integrated Information Theory, bioelectric morphogenesis, relational physics, and cross-cultural contemplative phenomenology from isolated populations. The concept of 'soul' is formalized as the Identity Persistence Index (IPI): a topological, self-referential, anti-entropic node characterized by metacognitive loop closure and Effective Valence. Statistical analysis of geographically and temporally isolated populations—including Aboriginal Australians, San/Khoisan peoples, Pre-Columbian Americas, Polynesian cultures, and Eurasian contemplative traditions—shows convergence on identical phenomenological structures, with a conservative...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 15, 2026
Weighted Jaccard similarity analysis reveals that N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) reorganizes the correlation architecture of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. The method quantifies changes in similarity geometry of brain network correlations under the psychedelic state, indicating a distinct reorganization of functional connectivity patterns compared to baseline.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 13, 2026
Prashant Gunjan
Contemplative practices like mindfulness and meditation can reduce egoic boundaries, which in turn diminishes existential fears and improves impulse regulation. This conceptual model proposes that enhanced self-control and lower death anxiety are key mechanisms through which these practices foster emotional stability, resilience, and adaptive behavior. The framework integrates contemporary psychological theory with contemplative insights to explain personal growth and spiritual development, offering a basis for future empirical testing and applications in therapy and organizations.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 11, 2026
A proposed experimental protocol tests whether the psychedelic state arises from the radical pair mechanism (RPM) at the serotonin 5-HT2A receptor. The psychedelic ligand N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) itself provides the hyperfine fields driving singlet-triplet oscillations. By synthesizing isotopically labeled variants (13C-DMT and 15N-DMT), nuclear spins are selectively modified without altering molecular geometry, charge, receptor affinity, or metabolic half-life. The kinetic isotope effect (KIE) is negligible for these substitutions (KIE < 1.04 and < 1.03). Any change in psychedelic phenomenology under these substitutions would constitute direct evidence for the magnetic isotope effect (MIE) and thus the RPM in conscious experience.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 10, 2026
Veronica Mäki-marttunen
Psilocybin alters how brain activity spreads slowly and globally across the cortex, following the spatial distribution of 5HT2a receptors. The accompanying code supports the analysis of these propagation patterns.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 4, 2026
A proposed 2 × 2 factorial protocol crosses isotopes of two noble gases with DMT (a psychedelic) under simultaneous EEG-fMRI to dissociate nuclear spin from anesthetic action. The four gas conditions are 84Kr (spin 0, non-anesthetic), 83Kr (spin 9/2, non-anesthetic), 132Xe (spin 0, sub-anesthetic), and 129Xe (spin 1/2, sub-anesthetic). Each is combined with DMT or placebo, yielding eight sessions per subject. The protocol uses intra-element comparisons to eliminate solubility biases. The primary endpoint is Global Functional Connectivity. Predictions: 83Kr will amplify DMT signatures relative to 84Kr; 132Xe will attenuate them; 129Xe will attenuate less than 132Xe due to spin-mediated neuroprotection.